Tech Summit 2017

Are you ready to learn, grow and transform the way your company does IT?

10 weeks, 10 FREE online courses.

Beginning August 9th, these free, weekly online courses will present you with a mix of opportunities to gain “how-to” skills and high-level strategic insights into some of the most timely topics facing the IT industry today.

In even just the past year, the cloud has undergone an evolution. With this ever-changing technology, it poses the question if it's best for business to move to the cloud now, or later. Learn from Jeff Rogers, CEO of the Sacramento Business Journal's #1 Fastest-Growing Company, Big Green IT, about what parts of your business are best serviced by the current state of cloud technology and if, and when, you should migrate.

"The cloud isn't secure." "I have to move EVERYTHING to the cloud." "It's too expensive." We're separating the fact from fiction when it comes to companies' biggest barriers from moving to the cloud, and we'll give you the tools you need to communicate the collaboration and productivity solutions it can provide.

Before you make the jump to Office 365, hear from Microsoft experts who will share an honest and actionable game plan for navigating your organization’s migration to the cloud. From evaluation to implementation, we'll walk you through it so you feel confident in your decision to migrate to Office 365 (or not!).

Since early 2017's WannaCry crisis, ransomware has become a prominent point of discussion for business continuity planning. We'll discuss best practices for protecting your critical data and recovering quickly, without paying the ransom.

You know you're ready to move to the cloud, but how exactly are you going to get there? In this hands-on course we'll go over the various methods of Office 365 migration and and how to migrate smoothly to the Cloud.

The expansion of the Office 365 footprint presents unique challenges when it comes to retention, data management and availability. Learn how to protect your cloud-based email, protect against data loss situations not covered by Microsoft and empower your IT team to take control of your organization's Office 365 data.

One of the hottest IT topics today revolves around cloud functionality, and, as a result, there is an increasing number of add-ons that can help you meet your company’s needs for confidentiality and compliance (regardless of your industry). We’ll take an in-depth look at tools such as Cirius, Skykick and Crossware that, respectively, will give you email encryption security, easily restore business data and add a personal touch to your email signatures.

Azure is not your grandfather’s cloud. Microsoft has invested more than $10 billion per year over the past two years into the platform, which is now running in 100+ datacenters connected in more than 30 countries around the world. In looking at Cloud and Hybrid Cloud with Azure, it’s important to know what type of workloads are working best today and why. From overflow production to full production, to hybrid Cloud and DR (and, yes, test and development too), we will explore three real scenarios as we visit how Azure continues to change and significantly improve the IT landscape.

What if we told you that by leveraging certain technology, you can get to near-instant backup windows and near-instant restoration of whole volumes or individual files? We'll show you how to do all this and unlock the ability to leverage your backup data. No magic wand required.

Come learn about HPE Gen10 Persistent Memory and how it delivers the performance of memory with the persistence of storage. *New for Gen10* - HPE Scalable Persistent Memory is multi-TB scale and runs at memory speeds unlocking new performance levels for business workloads. We'll cover use cases such as: checkpoint/restore for apps, large in-memory compute, HTAP Real Time Analytics and much more. You'll also learn how NVDIMMs can be used to eliminate storage bottlenecks for databases, reduce core-based software licensing fees and accelerate performance as a write caching tier.

Upon registering, you will receive a confirmation email with login information and a calendar invite for your desired course. To ensure you receive the proper login information for each course, we ask that you sign up for them one at a time, by clicking on the class title or Register Now buttons.